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National Assessment of Educational Progress: 1987 High School Transcript Study (ICPSR 2256)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics

Summary:

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a
federally-funded, ongoing, periodic assessment of educational
achievement in the various subject areas and disciplines taught in the
nation's schools. Since 1969, NAEP has gathered information about
levels of educational achievement of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds across
the country. In the fall of 1987, high school transcripts were
collected from 34,140 students attending 433 schools that had
previously been sampled for the Na... (more info)

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a
federally-funded, ongoing, periodic assessment of educational
achievement in the various subject areas and disciplines taught in the
nation's schools. Since 1969, NAEP has gathered information about
levels of educational achievement of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds across
the country. In the fall of 1987, high school transcripts were
collected from 34,140 students attending 433 schools that had
previously been sampled for the National Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP) in 1986. The sample of students for the transcript
study included both handicapped and nonhandicapped students who in
1985-1986 were enrolled in the 11th grade and/or were 17 years old.
Approximately half of the sampled students had participated in NAEP
assessments in 1986. The 1987 High School Transcript Study also
collected school-level information such as course lists, graduation
requirements, and the definition of units of credit and
grades. Student information included sex, grade level, age, graduation
status, and race/ethnicity. The following additional information was
gathered for handicapped students: handicapping condition, severity of
cognitive, psychosocial, and physical limitation, reading and
mathematics grade level (teacher estimate), placement in mainstream,
resource, and self-contained classes, and receipt of selected
services.

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS: 1987 HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT STUDY. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1987. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02256.v1

Universe:
Students, both handicapped and nonhandicapped, who were
enrolled in the 11th grade and/or were 17 years old.

Data Types:
transcript data

Data Collection Notes:

The codebook and data collection instruments are
provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format
was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using
PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on
how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR
Website.

Methodology

Sample:
A nationally representative sample of 491 secondary
schools selected for the 1986 National Assessment of Educational
Progress, Grade 11/Age 17 students, of which 438 schools agreed to
participate and 433 eventually provided transcripts. Within these
schools, students were selected for the Transcript Study according to
three categories: (1) Students who were sampled for the 1986 NAEP, (2)
a newly drawn sample of students who were in the 11th grade in spring
1986, and (3) all of the handicapped students in the sample schools
who were in the eligible age/grade. Two distinct sets of sampling
procedures were used within schools, depending upon whether schools
had retained the materials used in sampling and assessing students in
the 1986 NAEP. In both types of schools, the sample included all
handicapped students who were in the 11th grade and/or were 17 years
old in 1985-1986. A handicapped student was defined as one who had had
an IEP (Individualized Educational Program), and was not classified as
"gifted," in 1985-1986.

Data Source:

high school transcripts of sampled students

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:2000-10-16

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB2256.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

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